1. |
Otherwirldly
03:19
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I draw my finger
Down the crease of a mountain
Five or six seconds
Who’s counting
Is it a plane
Or a hole in the sky
A rogue conker
On a chestnut tree
In May
The fizz of a candle
A flicker of light
I try to speak
Can’t find the mouth that fits right
Tailored books have been piling up
As the threads stretch out
To be freed by the page
Is to reach for a line
With widening range
Meet you at six degrees
Reach for the bright
Casting shadow on two trees
Do you dream of me much as I dream of you?
Most nights nowadays
Who will come and read the kids awake?
Stoic roots run deep
Wild and unseen
Otherwirldly
Is it a plane or a hole in the sky
Leaves no trail
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2. |
Plunge
02:49
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Oh you’ve got cold feet
You’re speaking literally
A great divide illuminates
The path through which I receive you late
We lay in a cotton sea
Rest bent knees and sore feet
To take place an insurrection
And put a cherry on your chin
The triangle portends
Past, present and future tense
If we don’t pull together
We won’t be free to pull at all
Are our hands tied together
Or is one waiting for that call
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3. |
All Seeing A
04:10
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I give until I can’t take it any more
For you I won’t hold my breath
Or imagine the pieces I’ve picked up on
For months have been put to the test
I am that person
All seeing A
Electric appeal
That’s why you always got on
Because you laughed at all his jokes
Now you’re doing different things
Some burns come without the smoke
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4. |
Cut
05:12
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Guts and a soul
Down a hole in plain sight
With a mouse’s might
A kiss or a bite
Impressions in snow
Lavender to the nose
An archer’s bow
Shot straight through the radio
What’s a sheep without sleep
When it’s climb’s got deep
The horse’s mouth
Says it’s colder down south
Pull your head over
You can’t live a corpse
An animal torn in two
Its head was shaven and looked like you
Duelling dogs spinning as a team
In a dance of cogs meek as lean
It was quite the scene
The cut
It could be worth a pretty ½d
A copper coin left alone in the street
While the pine marten lays low
You row your sinking boat down the stream
The robin it promises new self esteem
Pull your head over
You can’t live a corpse
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5. |
3539
05:11
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Let’s watch that car crash again
While you untie the knots from my hands
I know it’s not pretend
I didn’t think I’d need a friend
To answer a distress call I never sent
I haven’t said but I think I was meant
To meet someone like you
So I could tell them
In this short time
You’ve reminded me the value of life
Without a wager or price
Carved into one another’s hides
I’ve stopped dragging myself around
When I’m not lying down
And now I’m feeling found
Between the air and solid ground
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6. |
Ferrules
03:48
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Could anywhere away from in love
A panic attack bring on
Like a pawn in a liquid game
I’ve come to imagine
Staring at the face of the moon
Deep into every crease
I wish I could pinch its skin
And sit on the edge
Of the hole it fits in
Make a session
Some decorations
Certain indiscretion
Has its limitations
In another world alone together
Drinking gifted liquor
What leaps into my picture
Dissolves one into two
As we stir
Fingers pressing in your soil
Whispers governing the soul
Make a call
Take control
It’s none or all
Like water in water
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7. |
It Is, Is It?
02:25
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It is what it is
You’d rather it wasn’t
I am watching the people
They are eyeing the eagle
A feeling of immediacy
Dictates is restraining
Stars blink they are rising
You say that it is
But mean it was
There’s no getting going
When everything stops
Time’s a kind of currency
Open up the door
There’s always something more
You’ll find your audience
You never had much luck
But look you are living
Free as you’re stuck
Things always are
More than they let on
What is and becomes
Punch drunk stunned
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8. |
Lifejackal
03:55
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I sat and waited
For some old feelings to rush back
Remember who I was
Before the fast began
You’ve got to give it out
Found many windows
To stand outside and peer into
But in ways I’m blind
So keep safe in good faith
And remind myself
You’ve got to give it out
Before giving out
Lifejackal
You’ve got me by the neck
And you won’t let me forget
That we are not machines
Nor do we feel like human beings
It’s okay to share everything with you
But I am careful to time
And word things right before I do
The content is around
But not inside
To feel it is to find pride
I’m not standing
Nor falling
Or floating
Or crawling
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9. |
Mea Culpa
02:26
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To philosophise its o learn to die
There is business unfinished here
Something’s happening that I don’t know
Nor can figure out now...
It’s more than a niggle Nigel
The dichotomy of control
For never is now...
My will says yes, another’s no
Comfort eating, history repeating
Digest and let out the days
How well placed my malaise
Who is asking the real questions
About what runs rings around my head
What’s it to be and to bred
Who is leading and who is led
It’s always someone else’s fault
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10. |
Nil for the Nab
04:33
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A Roman à clef
Measured and weighed
From natal day
To obituary
Twenty one saved
I am nil for the Nab
Show me the view
From up top
Kismet is not a word
In your world
Seeded clues
In a ghost written book
At a juncture the road it took
A man again
Companion, dad, dog, friend
When there’s more to life than death
And sickness greater than health
In what we’re poor
Will be made up for
If for only a day it was
You made your contribution
Bones lay down
In the jaws of the earth
On Brotherswater
Several eyes came towards me
Emerged with aplomb
Your camouflage superior dear
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